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Synonyms for faith

noun

  1. Complete trust

    confidence, trust, credence, belief, credit, assurance, acceptance, expectation, hope, dependence, conviction, sureness, fidelity, loyalty, troth, certainty, surety, allegiance, assent, credulity, certitude, reliance.

    Antonyms doubt*, skepticism, distrust.

  2. A formal system of beliefs

    religion, creed, doctrine, dogma, belief, tenet, revelation, credo, gospel, profession, confession, conviction, persuasion, canon, principle, piety, church, orthodoxy, worship, theism, teaching, theology, doxy, decalogue, denomination, cult, sect. For specific faiths see church 3, religion 2. See syn. study at belief.

bad faith
break faith

be disloyal, abandon, fail; see betray 1.

good faith
in faith

indeed, in fact, in reality; see really 1.

keep faith

be loyal, adhere, follow; see support 2.

See faith in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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